Mandela set standard, local leaders say

Published 8:17 pm, Thursday, December 5, 2013

SAN ANTONIO — Nelson Mandela, the South African leader whose work to dismantle apartheid created a legacy of countering hateful injustice with forgiveness and sustained, selfless advocacy, died Thursday in Johannesburg at 95.

San Antonians joined in the almost immediate global tumbling of tributes to the man who first drew notice as an articulate revolutionary but spent his final decades as an elder statesman of nonviolence.